The Year the Gypsies Came
Title | The Year the Gypsies Came PDF eBook |
Author | Linzi Glass |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2015-06-16 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 162779686X |
Set in apartheid South Africa, this powerful and lyrically written novel is Linzi Glass's debut. As twelve-year-old Emily Iris explains it, her mother and father have always been eager to take in travelers and vagabonds, relying on the presence of outsiders to ease the tension between them. Emily has her gentle older sister, Sarah, and Buza, the old Zulu nightwatchman, for company and comfort. But her parents' continuing discontent leads them to welcome some peculiar strangers. One spring, a family of wanderers-a wildlife photographer, his wife, and two boys-comes to stay, and their strange, compelling, and dangerous presence will leave the Iris family infinitely changed.
The Gypsies
Title | The Gypsies PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Yoors |
Publisher | Waveland Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 1987-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1478610638 |
At the age of twelve, Jan Yoors ran away from his cultural Belgian family to join a wandering band, a kumpania, of Gypsies. For ten years, he lived as one of them, traveled with them from country to country, shared both their pleasures and their hardshipsand came to know them as no one, no outsider, ever has. Here, in this firsthand and highly personal account of an extraordinary people, Yoors tells the real story of the Gypsies fascinating customs and their never-ending struggle to survive as free nomads in a hostile world. He vividly describes the texture of their daily life: the Gypsies as lovers, spouses, parents, healers, and mourners; their loyalties and enmities; their moral and ethical beliefs and practices; their language and culture; and the history and traditions behind their fierce pride. The exultant celebrations, the daring frontier crossings, the yearly horse fairs, the convoluted business deals in which Gypsy shrewdness combined with all the apparatus of modern technology are all brought to life in this memorable portrait of the most romanticized, yet most maligned and least-known people on earth. An insiders story, The Gypsies lifts the veil of secrecy that for so long has enshrouded this race of strangers in our midst.
Constructing Identities over Time
Title | Constructing Identities over Time PDF eBook |
Author | Jekatyerina Dunajeva |
Publisher | Central European University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2021-12-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 963386416X |
Jekatyerina Dunajeva explores how two dominant stereotypes—“bad Gypsies” and “good Roma”—took hold in formal and informal educational institutions in Russia and Hungary. She shows that over centuries “Gypsies” came to be associated with criminality, lack of education, and backwardness. The second notion, of proud, empowered, and educated “Roma,” is a more recent development. By identifying five historical phases—pre-modern, early-modern, early and “ripe” communism, and neomodern nation-building—the book captures crucial legacies that deepen social divisions and normalize the constructed group images. The analysis of the state-managed Roma identity project in the brief korenizatsija program for the integration of non-Russian nationalities into the Soviet civil service in the 1920s is particularly revealing, while the critique of contemporary endeavors is a valuable resource for policy makers and civic activists alike. The top-down view is complemented with the bottom-up attention to everyday Roma voices. Personal stories reveal how identities operate in daily life, as Dunajeva brings out hidden narratives and subaltern discourse. Her handling of fieldwork and self-reflexivity is a model of sensitive research with vulnerable groups.
The Year the Gypsies Came
Title | The Year the Gypsies Came PDF eBook |
Author | Linzi Glass |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2006-03-21 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
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In Johannesburg, South Africa, in the late 1960s, twelve-year-old Emily, who longs for affection from her quarreling parents, finds comfort in the stories of a Zulu servant and in her friendship with a young houseguest who has an equally troubled family.
Our Forgotten Years
Title | Our Forgotten Years PDF eBook |
Author | Maggie Smith-Bendell |
Publisher | Univ of Hertfordshire Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781902806914 |
Maggie Smith-Bendell and her family are Romani Gypsies and, as she grew up, Maggie learned the old crafts and customs of the Gypsies' traditional way of life. In this memoir, Maggie describes a way of life that has more or less vanished in the 21st century.
Ruby Red
Title | Ruby Red PDF eBook |
Author | Linzi Glass |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2008-03-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0141918535 |
In Ruby Winters' world, colour opens some doors and slams others shut. Her opulent Johannesburg neighbourhood is a far cry from the streets of Soweto where anger and hatred simmer under the surface. Ruby can’t resist the blue-eyed Afrikaans boy who brings her the exciting rush of first love, but whose presence brings hushed whispers and disapproving glances. She might not see race, colour or creed – but it seems everybody else does . . . This dazzling novel will entrance teenage and adult readers alike.
American Gypsy
Title | American Gypsy PDF eBook |
Author | Oksana Marafioti |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 383 |
Release | 2012-07-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0374104077 |
Recounts the author's early experiences as a fifteen-year-old Gypsy emigrating with her family from the Soviet Union to the United States.